The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects (Second Edition) - Softcover

Ruppelt, Edward

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1411664779 ISBN 13: 9781411664777

Publisher: Lulu Press, Inc., 2005

Synopsis

Regardless of whether or not one believes that the study of UFO reports has any merit it is a simple fact that such reports were studied by various elements of the U.S. government, most notably the Air Force. Those interested in learning more about this remarkable bit of military history will find this reprint of Edward Ruppelt's classic “insider examination” of early Air Force interest in UFO phenomena an invaluable resource. (Captain Edward J. Ruppelt was chief of Project Blue Book from early 1951 until September 1953.) This reprint edition is also notable in that it includes the often overlooked additional three chapters added by Ruppelt for the 1960 second-edition release.

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About the Author

Edward J. Ruppelt (1923–1960) was a United States Air Force officer probably best-known for his involvement in Project Blue Book, a formal governmental study of unidentified flying objects. He is generally credited with coining the term "unidentified flying object", to replace the terms "flying saucer" and "flying disk", which had become widely known; Ruppelt thought the latter terms were both suggestive and inadequate. Ruppelt was the director of Project Grudge from late 1951 until it became Project Blue Book in March 1952; he remained with Blue Book until late 1953. UFO researcher Jerome Clark writes, "Most observers of Blue Book agree that the Ruppelt years comprised the project's golden age, when investigations were most capably directed and conducted. Ruppelt himself was open-minded about UFOs, and his investigators were not known, as Grudge's were, for force-fitting explanations on cases."

Edition details

• Publisher: Lulu Press, Inc.
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1411664779
• ISBN 13: 9781411664777
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 286